The movie soundtrack, released on Eastwood’s new jazz label, Malpaso, is selling fast. The star also plans to re-release the original Hartman album, “Once in Every Life,” under a deal with Bee Hive Records, run by a Chicago couple as a sideline to a lighting-supply business. His best-known record, with Coltrane, is being reissued next week. The “Bridges” record could also revive interest in Dinah Washington, among the queens of the big-band era (and once the pianist at Hart-man’s South Side Baptist church). Verve, which owns the best Washington tracks, is planning its own reissue. At the end of the movie. Eastwood added a tear-jerking soundtrack of swelling strings. Still, to the jazz fraternity, he deserves a medal for popularizing forgotten greats.
